Ellen Glasgow Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
Irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature ... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.
Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
You could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
It is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.